A CGC Unboxing Gone Terribly Wrong - Lessons learned not being careful submitting for grading 

Comic collecting rarely makes sense--but, that's part of the fun. I'd much rather see someone getting books graded for their own personal collection that might not make as much sense to grade, as to watch these people that submit books to CGC for the sole purpose of flipping a bunch of modern books to make a buck. I loved your honesty throughout this video. Great stuff!

They are totally harder on new books than 30 year old books even though they aren’t supposed to be. Welcome to the game and like most games of chance, “The house always wins”.

He actually taught me to always collect the first five books of any kind of Comic Character or various other Tutles being sold and made available at anytime possible and he was actually right about everything and its actually great to see how things are actually coming about without the Comic Community nowadays as well.

The sentry was a April's fool joke in wizard magazine that become marvel kanon 😂

I loved Comics as kid and still love them today as back then in the early stages of collecting and with the help and knowledge of a Local Comic Book Store Owner I learned about what to actually keep and what was eventually going to be more valuable in the future and eventually though a few things have changed and become rigid surrounding Age, Condition, Covers and Artist's along with those who could be or maybe willing and able to pay much higher prices or the actual worth of various types of Comics themselves nowadays you will never actually know exactly what you will get any types of Comic Books or a vastly larger Collection as you will mostly have to let others that may be interested in what you actually have as their own personal interests usually ties in with the actual price they themselves are actually willing to pay you gradually throughout time and with a lot of patience and actually being able to keep up with what's actually going on with Comic Artist's and Comics today. I think that you did great and saved what you actually liked having for yourself, and that's the best thing of all-"Thanks,I actually enjoyed seeing your Comic Collection."😊

Another excellent video from the swarm of eyes pedigree. Ive learned from my mistakes with cgc and now I submit 4-6 books a month through my lcs and its a combo of nostalgia and the art that even has me still doing that. I got back into collecting in 2016 and ive had 200 or so books graded and found no consistency at all. Its as if they only want a certain amount of 9.8s and other grades. You have a great collection though. Your back wall of books says it all. Keep up the good work take care

You obviously love your comics. I have been using Mylars and hard plastic top loaders to protect my comics instead of sending them to CGC. Their grading process have been a little bizarre lately. Shocking that Detective variant got a 9.2. Nice books btw!

I have done the same thing my friend. Had to teach myself to dial back my submissions because like you said, it ain't cheap. Still great books and will display awesome! Love that Wolverine/Crime Suspenstories homage. Great video dude!

CGC slabs will gradually go down in value across the board until they redesign the case and address all the fraud issues. The trust is shattered.

Modern books are graded a lot more harshly than older books especially books that aren't that old. You really can't compare books from different decades. A 9.2 from the 90's is not the same as a 9.2 from 20 years later.

I wrote(Throughout the Comic book Community)but was changed and confusing -"I tell you sometimes I don't actually want to write out my comments occasionally,as the needs win in the end-"Enjoy Yourself."

I submitted my copy of Crisis #7 for the last George Perez signing. Never happened due to his declining health but I got a 9.6.

I'm a fellow Sentry fan, so I let out an audible gasp when you revealed the grade of Sentry#1! Congratulations!

Excellent video. I have made my share of CGC submission errors, so I could relate.

The whole point of CGC is to have consistent grading. So much for that. It seems like they're just pulling numbers out of a hat.

Those are all great books and good grades, especially the Bolland Joker

It’s so strange what constitutes a 9.8 vs a 9.6 right?!? I have a 9.2 that should be a 6.5 and also a 8.0 that should be a 9.6! CGC is all over the place! Congrats on the 9.8 regardless of if the grader was in a good mood or not!😂

Oh buddy....I'm watching the whole video, but the look on your face right befre the fade to title card tells me everything I need to know.

This is a brutal video on multiple levels…

bro you should REALLY check the FMV on your books... I'm halfway through your video (Eight Billion Genies) and the only book you're under water on is the Batgirl book so far. You bought these books at cover price, and even factoring the cost of shpping and grading, you're still doing well with your grades. Pre-screen in the future though.

You can also either search the vin or scan the bar code on the back with your phone to see the graders notes and why you got the grade you got

Some wins, some losses, some mysteries. Modern book grading can be a minefield. Huge differences between a 9.8 and even a 9.4. For vintage keys, the difference between say a 7.0 and 6.0 can be disappointing, but probably not as huge percentage wise.

I wish you would get in touch with cgc and send them photos of all the books that look like the don't warrant the grade and the ones that look way better than the grade. I would anyway, because we need to let them know that they need to get better!!! I'm glad cgc lowered the number of comics for their prescreen because I only like to send in 8-10 comics at a time and have a submission ready to go now. Wish me luck. 😅

Tom Baker FTW! Thanks for the cool video!

I thought you had mistakenly sliced up an expensive comic while trying to unbox 🗡😂

Good video. Glad this popped up on my feed. Now a sub. Do you press your submissions?

Yeah, I had collected V for Vendetta as they came out each month and still love it to this day. One of the greatest limited series of all time. And the 9.4 Killing Joke was mine that I gave to you.

Love Doctor Who. Got a 9.6 newsstand of same copy recently. Trying to find good copies of Premiere 58-60

Thanks for sharing your "slab happy" unboxing. Like these modern books, but I'm always curious about the seemingly contradiction of CGC grades given vs. what the person believes it should be from one book to another. I've never slabbed a book and have no reference, so it seems these graders follow wonky standards or guess the grade to give a book. This video is a prime example! You mentioned pre-screening and I recently heard YTers complaining about something called 9.9 pre-screening. What exactly is this and the benefits and how much does it cost? A new sub. Thanks again. 😊

I thought you had these pressed or is that on the newer submissions?

Hey thay Sentry book sells between 400 to 600 bucks, not too shabby! And hey, that Batgirl would be a great gift to a kid to get them into comics, of course unless you love it, cause thats all that matters! Grading modern books is a tough game, unless it's something really special or ya just love it. Most super modern books pretty much need to 9.8 nowadays.

I’m sure you’ve mentioned this in previous videos and I’m sure I’ve already been told but my memory is terrible. Is rating dependent on who is doing the slabbing? Like is it partially opinion?

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Is this Randy, the comic guy from Little Giant?

If you need help deciding on a grade before sending to CGC feel free to ask me as I am pretty good.

Unless the 9.6 and 9.8 have grader notes, there is no difference between them and a 9.9 or 10.0. Any CGC grade lower than 10.0 should have an explanation as to why it isn't "Gem mint" condition. Because so few 9.8s have any grader ntoes, CGC has essentially made 9.8 the defacto 10.0.

So you finally got the most infamous CGC grader F'ing Frank.

Paying money to slab a comic in plastic so it can't be read. Never understood that.

Do they have graders notes? If they recorded them you should be able to tell what's wrong with them. CGC is notorious for not publishing grader notes. That's one of MANY reasons I switched to CBCS.

The only way to learn is to do it! I made 3 mistakes. 2 books i should have not graded (becuz i was still learning to grade older books and didn't have the eyes yet to see light staining and light creases) and a noob mistake, never use CGC pressing services! Lol!

that GotG #1 from 2008 is a pretty valuable book graded at 9.8

I'm starting to think Dave is your imaginary friend

Some good books regardless of grade

Excellent very entertaining new sub here

The lesson is: keep your raws raw and crack open those CGC cases because it's a scam anyway.

Your 9.8 Guardians is worth $330

Lesson number #1 don’t submit to a company that scams people. If some are still submitting books might as well get a prisoner on bail and have them stay with you also

IF YOU ARE REALLY COUNTING ON A 9.8, YOU MUST HAVE THEM PRE SCREEN AND PRESSED. MY FRIEND AND I DID A LITTLE EXPERIMENT WITH TWO ADMISSIONS WITH VERY SIMILAR BOOKS.. AND WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT THE BATCH WE PAID EXTRA FOR COME BACK WITH A LOT MORE 9.8s..

Yea...that's what you get with CGC.

Jacked up in the back!???

Cgc is so inconsistent

Easy math but your not a professor??? 😂

At this point it's an addiction..... It defies logic to get 95% of those books graded... 🤣😂 you even paid to get these books pressed. underwater? you drowned on this.

I don’t think your book choices are horrible but maybe you need to fine tune your grading skills to only send in the best of the best.

CGC grading is becoming a joke.

Seems like lots of wasted 💰 with poor decisions.

Hi, your channel just popped up for me. Even as a reader and collector who has never had even one book graded, I still enjoyed the video. 2.8k views and 290 subscribed seems rather a weird ratio. I'm not sure why you don't have way more subs. Add me as 1 more. 😊 I'll catch up on some of your other stuff now.... 🫡